Guido Fubini

Guido Fubini

Guido Fubini (born January 19, 1879 in Venice , † June 6, 1943 in New York ) was an Italian mathematician .

Career

Fubini was the son of a math teacher and went to school in Venice . From 1896 he studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa with Ulisse Dini and Luigi Bianchi , among others , from whom he received his doctorate in 1900 on Clifford parallels in elliptical spaces . From 1901 he taught at the University of Catania and soon after in Genoa . From 1908 he taught in Turin both at the Polytechnic and at the university. In 1939 he emigrated as a Jew with his family to the USA as a reaction to Mussolini’s policies, which had now become racistwhich had also resulted in his being forced into retirement. The main reason for his emigration was concern for the future of his two sons, who were engineers and physicists respectively. Fubini accepted an invitation from the Institute for Advanced Study in 1939 and then taught in New York City for a few years, but his health deteriorated due to heart problems.

As a mathematician, he first dealt with projective differential geometry and later with various areas of analysis such as function theory and integral calculus ( Fubini's theorem ). Other areas were group theory and mathematical physics, especially during the First World War, when he dealt with mathematical problems from military application in the artillery, and later out of interest in the field of work of his sons, who were engineers.

His son Eugenio Fubini (1913-1997), a physicist, was under Kennedy 1963-1965 Assistant Secretary of Defense in the USA and then 1965-1969 Vice President for Research at IBM .

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Guido Fubini. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .